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Large-diameter radar dishes that oscillate rapidly stand out among the drab one-story buildings and chainlinked fencing. Americans working at Koka are even more tight-lipped than usual in answering queries about the base's functions. The same is true of Bangkok officials.

Author: By John Burgess, DISPATCH NEWS SERVICE | Title: CIA, Electronics Stations Strengthen Influence of U.S. in Northern Thailand | 7/25/1972 | See Source »

Palmer came in at 300. So did Trevino, who was ending a two-year boycott of the Masters. Apart from Nicklaus' brazen attempts to reach the green in two on the 520-yd., water-guarded 15th hole, most of the excitement was in Augusta's parking lot, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: A Taste of Honey | 4/24/1972 | See Source »

American politics and government are particularly vulnerable to Rogers' kind of humor. Politicians who parade as national leaders look silly when you notice their common imperfections. Rogers described Calvin Coolidge's stiff-lipped way of talking: "Coolidge is what we call at home a close chewer and a tight spitter...

Author: By Ben Sendor, | Title: Will Rogers, U.S.A. | 3/9/1972 | See Source »

Flannery O'Conner brings us to a new South. It is a post-apocalyptic South, an unhallowed land stretching itself somewhere after the departure from the Garden, the death of Christ, the Northern triumph in the Civil War, and the suicide of Faulkner's Quentin Compson. Her Southerners are the...

Author: By Tina Rathborne, | Title: The Complete Stories | 2/22/1972 | See Source »

If the evidence presented at the trial was somewhat nebulous, the personalities involved certainly were not. The presiding judge, Webster Thayer, was a traditional Yankee with little sympathy for radicals. The Prosecutor, District Attorney Frederick G. Katzmann '96, was a cold, sharp, thin-lipped man of German descent who sought...

Author: By Leo FJ. Wilking, | Title: Sacco and Vanzetti in History... | 10/27/1971 | See Source »

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